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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 934. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: M. QAISER & SAOOD OMER
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: March-July.
Type: Type: Habitat in Europae nemoribus, Herb. Linn. 1052. 11 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan, India, Iran Afghanistan, Iraq, Mediterranean region and Caucasia.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Frequently cultivated in gardens, up to 1900 m; occasionally found as an escape.
Illustration: Viola odorata L. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-7 Swat: Mingora (Palace Hotel), M. Qaiser & party 6964 (KUH); Mingora (Marghazar), M. Qaiser & party 6964 B (KUH); Swat, July 1961, N.A. Malik s.n. (KUH); Kashmir: Nakial, Kotli Dist., 5-6000 ft., R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); C-7 Campbellpur Dist.: Wah, 6.4.1964, Jagdish Chandar Thapar s.n. (RAW).

 

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Prostrate, acauline annual to perennial herb with erect scapes. Rhizome long, pointed, branched, slender, giving rise to a stoloniferous stern. Leaves 2.0-3.5 x 1.5-3.0 cm, broadly ovate, obtuse, hairy, cordate, serrate, 5-7-veined, sinus deep, petiole covered with deflexed hairs, often twice or thrice the length of lamina, upto 15 cm long; stipules free, broad lanceolate to ovate, acuminte, fringed or fimbriate. Flowers odorous, violet, upto 2.0 cm long on upto 20 cm long peduncle. Sepals 4.0-7.0 x 1.0-3.0 mm, ovate, obtuse, entire, cuneate. Petals obovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, up to 12 mm long, c. 5.0 mm broad; lateral petal 11-16 x 7.0 mm, large, oblong, obtuse, entire, spur straight or subcurvate, obtuse, c. 4 mm long. Ovary globose, 2.5-3.0 x 1.0-2.0 mm, glabrous, style 3.0-4.0 x 0.5-1 mm, laterally compressed, stigma beaked, beak directed forward. Capsule globose, 3-6-angled.
 
 
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